Team Performance Analysis and Future Strategies

Now that you've had some time to kind of process, what conclusions have you and the

rest of the front office come to about what you can do differently to make

sure that you don't end up in a situation like this next year?

Yeah. I th- I think as, as we reflected on

how the start of the season

went the way it did,

we and I made a number of decisions that

created, uh, the potential for almost an, like, an uncapped

downside scenario. Um,

we had a lot of change. We've talked about that, um...

We've talked about that before.

Um,

I think change in New York is probably different than change, uh,

in other markets.

Uh, we lived that.

I think in addition to that change,

um,

we had certain elements of our roster that didn't have enough flexibility,

so that

when we had underperformance, it made it very difficult for

us to make in-season, on-the-fly adjustments.

We got hit with, with all of those, um, elements and,

and some injury issues, um,

uh, predominantly over the first half of the

season.

Um, and I think combining all of that,

uh, put us in a spot where

we, we had this tough stretch, and then we weren't able, both

from a roster construction perspective and from an internal cohesion and

continuity perspective, we weren't able to get ourselves out of

it, um,

the way we should have or could have or, or, um, in a way that would have

allowed us

to frankly have a more productive,

um, entirety of the season.